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To add to the above, bit of cursory googling says that 'The Academy' was charging almost 8k a year for whatever it is that they were doing.

Maribyrnong and Rowville operate on standard gov school fees and then you chip in a little extra for uniforms, equipment etc for sports stuff.

So you get all the stuff you get from a normal state school, a normal state school education and then extra specialist coaching from proper coaches, Danny Sexton runs the Maribyrnong program and Darren Bewick runs it at Rowville and they churn out AFL players. Lewis Hayes, D'Ambrosio and Wright all came through these programs.

The more you read into it the more it looks like a Sam Bankman-Fried or Fyre Fest style 'I have no idea what I'm doing and it's going to cost you' type scenario.